Anoushka Shankar: My deep connection with my father

Nick Duerden: Anoushka Shankar is from a world-famous musical family. But she didn't truly get to know her father – or meet her half-sister – until well into her childhood

Barry Norman: My family values

The broadcaster talks about his family

Hugh Grant’s joy at fatherhood makes him a thoroughly modern man

Hugo Schwyzer: The unabashed delight with which Grant announced he has a newborn says much about changing attitudes to fatherhood

Bryce Dallas Howard: My family values

Actor, and daughter of film director Ron Howard, talks about her family

Lucy Mangan’s pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet

Lucy Mangan on the people and stories in the media spotlight over the past seven days

I don’t know how he does it, either

Vanessa Thorpe: The truth is that in most families today the domestically challenged, Homer Simpson-style father is a thing of the past

A tale of two childhoods

Film director Wayne Thallon grew up in Edinburgh, between two very different homes. His mother was the wife of an Italian diplomat, his father a working-class wheeler-dealer. Sharon Walker meets him

Brigitte Nielsen

The actor talks about her family

Rain Phoenix’s unusual childhood

Rain Phoenix was raised by hippies and, like her brothers River and Joaquin, has made a career in film and music. She talks about their unusual childhood